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SHARP DOG-FIGHTS OVER KENT AND THE ESTUARY ARMISTICE New Nazi Venture PLANES MISSION IN Discouraged
MYSTERY AIR CRASH
IN THE LAST TWO NIGHTS, the German
air force has increased the violence of its in-
discriminate bombing of London and greatly
The Vichy Government widened the scope of the raids in the rest of announced yesterday that the country. three French and four German members of the Armistice Control Com- mission were killed in an air disaster on October 10. The plane in which they were Hravelling crashed in the Mediter-
Considerable damage has been done to private property in London and at isolated points casualties have included many killed.
rancan
Ecti
There were indications yesterday of a tendency to test Britain's air defences in preparation for pos- sible renewed mass onslaught in daylight, but the re- sults were very discouraging.
Reuter says that German tacking groups were busy con- tinuously throughout the day, but few maciunes succeeded in get- The announcement says the plane was "undoubtedly caught ting through to London, although in a storm." Search by French and the metropolitan area had German-planes failed-to-locate any wreckage.-Reuter. ...
Six German non-commissioned officers and men also perished. Some of the bodies have been washed ashore. Reuter.
rem
ceived-five-alert-periods-by- late
afternoon.
SPECTACULAR RAID
ON CAP GRIS-NEZ
THE R.A.F. STAGED A TERRIFIC AND SPECTACULAR ATTACK ON THE FRENCH COAST SHORTLY AFTER DUSK LAST NIGHT. The bombing was so violent that the ground on the English side of the Channel quivered as salvoes of bombs were dropped.
The bombing appeared to be concentrated on German long-range gun emplacements near Cap Gris Nez.
TRIBUTE TO PRIME MINISTER
Mr Winston Churchill
Although a low mist hung over the sea the flashes of exploding bombs, estimated by watchers to be at the rate of 100 a minute, could be seen on the Kent coast.
Searchlights played confused. ly as they tried to pick out the British bombers.
Flaming onions and streams of
but
For a week past, Nazi day. light attacks have been carried ” ግር almost exclusively by esserschmidt: fighters aquip- id with racka under the
bombs, wings to carry yesterday formations of enemy. bombers, with a protecting [Ecreen" of fightera "crossedTM” the Kent coast at a number. of points.
Defences Ready
Each time these formations ap- peared, they found both the A.A. defences and the interceptor 'planes ready for them..
Most of the German pilots
turned tail, but among those
Gelds.
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FEROCIOUS
ARRIVING
REPLY TO BRITISH IN 100'S BOMBARDMENT
Windows were shat- tered over a wide area but -on the whole damage was remark- ably light in relation to the ferocity of the German reply to a Bri- tish bombardment across the Straits of Dover yesterday.
An early estimate puts casualties
at only one killed and two wounded.
The duel lasted two hours.-Reuter.
TRIPARTITE PACT INTENTION
American aircraft are now_reaching Britain in hundreds and the number. will steadily increase next year.
Lord Lothian, British Ambassa- dor in Washington, announced this in a short speech directly after he landed in England from America by the Trans-Atlantic Clipper.
American rearmament, Lord Lothian said, was rapidly getting into its stride and American opin- ion now realised the necessity. for backing up Great Britain.
A tremendous impression had been created in the United States-bythe way the publlo was taking the London raids,
Lord Lothian expects to remain in England about three weeks. He will have a few days holiday in Scotland before returning to London for consultations with the Governinient.--Reuter. -
The United States Army au- thorities have asked American aeroplane factories to do 24-hour shifts, stated Lord Lothian,
"And I think they
who got through were two sing- Col. Frank Knox, U.S; Secretary He added: le machines which dropped five of Navy, in a special Navy Day are doing it."--Reuter. bonibs on the outskirts of Lon-message yesterday, urged Ser- don. fortunately on roads and vicemen to keep the United States
Navy strong and efficient and cent tripartite pact, he added, was: Nazi raiders
also attempted ready "in this serious time in the the application of pressure on all.
via unsuccessfully to come in
nation's history!
nations not at war, including the Essex and the Thames Estuary.
The outspoken" aim of the. Cre- United States.—Ruter. A.A. guns in the Estuary were
twice in action during the after-
nuon.
Shot Down In London Street
A yellow-nosed Messerschmidt bomber, one of Goering's crack squadron, was shot down in a
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ITALIANS
anti-aircraft shells poured into BOMB ARAB
the air from the German ground defences until the air appeared to
be sprinkled with tinsel-Reuter. STATES GESTAPO
is astounding his Cabinet CHIEF IN exhaustible energy and MADRID
colleagues by his in-
freshness of mind.
Italian aircraft have bombed two independent Moslem States Saudi Arabia and the little is- land of Bahrein, in the SEÑOR SUNER, SPAIN'S NEW Persian Gulf.
Raiders also flew over holy land Telling a North of England FOREIGN MINISTER, HAD A audience this on Saturday Lord CONVERSATION WITH HIMM" | Dear Mecca, Reu Lloyd Secretary of State for the LER GERMAN BEGRET PO-It is learned in Cairo-there Coloriics said he had never scon LIGE CHIEF, WHO ARRIVED were no casualties either in the Prime Minister in better heart IN MADRID - YESTERDAY, Saudi Arabia or Bahrein than he is these days.
STATES LYONS RADIO." It is obvious, the objective of the BENOR SUNER THEN AC Italian attack was the important “We all feel better about the COMPANIED HIMMLER TO THE wells in the Persian Gulf region war than we did. We have been PALACE WHERE THE GESTA both on Bahrein and, on the main- through great calamities and PO CHIEF WAS RECEIVED BY land opposite, catastrophes. Yet here we are, to- GENERAL FRANCO AND HAD . It is known, that neither place day with the Army and Nayy in A CONVERSATION LASTING | bas any defences against air at- the greatest fettleReuter, AN HOUR=REUTER,
tack. •Heuter.
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